Ranch wife, camp cook, cowgirl and mom, Kip Calahan also sings sweeter than a cowboy riding night watch. A resident of Southern New Mexico, she’s an ex-Coloradan who’s returned to her mother’s roots near Animas, where Calahan and her husband Richard, foreman of the famed Gray Ranch (now the Diamond A), live the life most of us just dream about. Sagebrush, tumbleweeds and roundups aren’t images borrowed from a Western movie. For Calahan, they’re part of her life and landscape. “I m


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